IT PMO Business Partner

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Introduction to the job

Your role is to act as the Office of the CIO (OCIO) Business Partner supporting a dedicated part of the IT portfolio. You will informally lead a dedicated team of support specialists, working together to support IT Department Heads, Project and Portfolio Managers, as well as Release Train Engineers and Scrum Masters on topics such as financials, progress reporting, planning, and quality assurance. The PMO Business Partner acts as a liaison for IT Department Heads for both the Change and Run portfolios.

Role and responsibilities

You challenge your stakeholders on the effective and consistent use of ASML processes and methodologies. By providing clear analysis and insight on portfolio financials, progress, quality, issues, and risks, you support senior management in effective decision making. You give direction to the team and steer them to proactively initiate consistent improvements, initiatives, and tasks. You help actively to share knowledge within the IT community and the OCIO team by organizing and/or contributing to the content of knowledge sharing events. As a PMO Business Partner you'll:

• Take End2End ownership of OCIO deliverables.
• Facilitate alignment between members from different OCIO capabilities (e.g. IT Delivery Support, IT Assurance, Agile Coaches).
• Create sub-sector improvement plans to set focus and direction.
• Prepare team backlog ensuring it’s properly prioritized.
• Balance priorities at team level.
• Enable and empower IT Operations Sub Sector stakeholders' decision making through standardized practices and information.
• Align with IT Department Heads to understand their needs.
• Support Head of Portfolio in the preparation for Sector Portfolio meetings and monthly operational alignment sessions with Business Senior Stakeholders.

Education and experience

To help us tackle the technical challenges we face, you’ll need experience working on high-tech products and with complex processes. As IT PMO Business Partner, you’ll need:

• A relevant Bachelor or Master's degree.
• 5-10 years of working experience in project/portfolio management and/or SAFe in a large, international organization, working as (agile) project management officer, or a similar position.
• Experience in data analysis, providing advice, and preparing scenarios for senior leaders.
• Experience with implementation of changes and improvement initiatives, or ability to do so.
• Sound knowledge of, and working experience in, project & portfolio management methodologies like PMBOK/Prince2 and MoP.
• Sound knowledge of, and working experience in, SAFe, Agile, and Scrum.
• Preferably, working experience with Microsoft Project Online, Jira (Align), and Spotfire.

Skills

You have proven stakeholder management capabilities and skills to support, advise, and challenge stakeholders to effect sustainable change by influencing without power. You communicate clearly, concisely, and directly to team leads, peers, and customers; listen actively; show empathy to others; strive to achieve a shared understanding of your own tasks, issues, and goals; and speak up. You have excellent presentation skills and a convincing personality. You are result-driven and flexible when needed (customer focused). You are people-oriented, with strong interpersonal, communication, and analytical skills, and a team player with the ability to work independently. To thrive in this job, you’ll need the following skills:

• Commitment: take ownership, focus on quality and improvements, and stick to agreements made.
• Understand and consistently question the status quo and analyze existing processes and data within your own area of responsibility, based on knowledge and experience.
• Demonstrate a learning mindset: actively seek feedback; learn and develop based on experience and feedback.
• Pays attention to detail and produces work that meets high quality standards.
• Pro-active team player with the ability to work independently.
• No-nonsense and hands-on mentality.
• Fluent in English and preferably in Dutch.

Context of the position

This position is part of the Delivery Support organization within the Office of the CIO. The PMO Business Partner reports to the Manager Delivery Support and has internal interfaces with colleagues of the Office of the CIO, Epic Owners, Scrum Masters, Release Train Engineers, (Chief) Product Owners, Solution Team Managers, Portfolio Managers, Competence Center Directors, other IT and Business stakeholders, Finance, Purchasing, suppliers, and consultants.

About Us

ASML is a leading supplier of lithography equipment, used by the world’s top chipmakers to print microchips that are increasingly powerful, fast, and energy efficient. Working at ASML is inspiring, no matter what field you're in. That’s because we push the boundaries of technology: if it’s moving the world forward, chances are, we’re behind it. In fact, we’re probably a part of the electronic device you’re using right now.

We’re a global team of more than 32,000 people from 122 different nationalities and counting. Headquartered in Europe’s top tech hub, the Brainport Eindhoven region in the Netherlands, our operations are spread across Europe, Asia, and the US.